Tamara - "Day Break" got a lot better as the show went on. The final eps were pretty good.
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
le nubian - Jan 24, 2008 8:57:19 am PST #9671 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kevin - Jan 24, 2008 9:01:47 am PST #9672 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I don't think it's entirely silly, T. It's $1m an ep more expensive than Firefly. It was supposed to be a Fall show, but if the strike continues it won't meet that timeframe. It's with a network which spent $10m or so on Firefly's pilot, then threatened not to continue with the project, then refused to air the pilot first.
sumi - Jan 24, 2008 9:06:51 am PST #9673 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I enjoyed Daybreak.
ETA: Kidnapped - like Journeyman on NBC - didn't get much of a chance and did get a dvd release.
I don't know what company produced Kidnapped.
Tamara - Jan 24, 2008 9:14:27 am PST #9674 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
le nubian, I'll have to take your word for it. I didn't make it past the second episode.
Kevin, we know the cost per ep on Dollhouse? Really? Isn't any estimates on that premature?
I would like to think that Fox learned its lesson about Firefly, but I guess I could be wrong.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2008 9:19:22 am PST #9675 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I really like how Daybreak worked around the obvious pitfalls of doing the same day over and over again. I stopped watching Prison Break because I didn't see how they were going to keep up. Well, and also because Wenty wasn't as naked as I'd have liked.
aurelia - Jan 24, 2008 9:33:59 am PST #9676 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Wenty wasn't as naked as I'd have liked
Poor guy has to either live with long sleeves in a hot climate or spend hours in makeup getting tattoos applied. They should've run to Canada.
Kevin - Jan 24, 2008 9:40:18 am PST #9677 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Tamara, the proposed license fee for Dollhouse was in the Variety announcement. I think. One of them, anyway.
ETA: That said I like to think FOX won't touch it inappropriately.
Tamara - Jan 24, 2008 10:03:36 am PST #9678 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
You don't have a link to that somewhere do you, Kevin? I can't find it on their site. I find the announcement and many mentions but not a license fee.
Nevermind. I found it. It was EW not Variety.
Is that really higher than Firefly?
Kevin - Jan 24, 2008 10:09:06 am PST #9679 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Firefly was circa $1.3m I believe. I *think* EW have lifted that figure from an interview with JW elsewhere and got it wrong. Unless I'm wrong.
Tamara - Jan 24, 2008 10:10:53 am PST #9680 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I just found a Variety mention of that same $1.3M for Firefly and yet another mention of Dollhouse being $1.5M to $2.0M at THR.
So higher, but not twice as high. Seems about right five plus years later.